NSG 527 Exam Study Guide | Actual Questions and Answers
Latest Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
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What is the purpose of family psychoeducation?
i. - ✔✔- Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness
ii. - Provides information about recovery stages
iii. - Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
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What does family psychoeducation NOT do?
- ✔✔Does not advocate for any vocational rehab
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How does family meet the needs of society?
- ✔✔Helps mediate between society expectations and personal needs of the individual
client
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How does the family meet the needs of its members?
- ✔✔Facilitates ongoing development of the personality of each individual
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Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness?
- ✔✔The whole family
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How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a member of the family
with an illness?
i. - ✔✔- Help promote healthy ways
ii. - Identify other health issues other family members have
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What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families?
i. - ✔✔- Developmental stages can differ
ii. - No one uniform family structure
iii. - Increase in stigma
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What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice?
- ✔✔The conceptualization of the family
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What are the three levels of prevention?
i. - ✔✔1. Primary 2. Secondary
, ii. 3. Tertiary
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What is primary prevention?
- ✔✔Health promotion and disease prevention
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What is secondary prevention?
- ✔✔Early detection and treatment
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What is tertiary prevention?
- ✔✔Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and convalescence
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In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the family as a client?
i. - ✔✔1. Community health nursing
ii. 2. Pediatric nursing
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Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit?
- ✔✔Dorothy Orem
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Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing?
- ✔✔Florence Nightingale
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What is stress theory?
- ✔✔Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they manage a crisis, including resources they
possess and those that are available to them, as well as their own perception of the
crisis/situation
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What is the developmental approach?
- ✔✔The family's progression through different stages of tasks or issues through the
lifecycle
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What is the structural-functional approach?
- ✔✔A holistic, comprehensive approach that incorporates not only the family, but their
inner and outer environments/universe
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What is the family lifecycle career?
- ✔✔Successive areas of stages of experiences of a family as a unit
Latest Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
•
What is the purpose of family psychoeducation?
i. - ✔✔- Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness
ii. - Provides information about recovery stages
iii. - Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
•
What does family psychoeducation NOT do?
- ✔✔Does not advocate for any vocational rehab
•
How does family meet the needs of society?
- ✔✔Helps mediate between society expectations and personal needs of the individual
client
•
How does the family meet the needs of its members?
- ✔✔Facilitates ongoing development of the personality of each individual
•
Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness?
- ✔✔The whole family
•
How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a member of the family
with an illness?
i. - ✔✔- Help promote healthy ways
ii. - Identify other health issues other family members have
•
What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families?
i. - ✔✔- Developmental stages can differ
ii. - No one uniform family structure
iii. - Increase in stigma
•
What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice?
- ✔✔The conceptualization of the family
•
What are the three levels of prevention?
i. - ✔✔1. Primary 2. Secondary
, ii. 3. Tertiary
•
What is primary prevention?
- ✔✔Health promotion and disease prevention
•
What is secondary prevention?
- ✔✔Early detection and treatment
•
What is tertiary prevention?
- ✔✔Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and convalescence
•
In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the family as a client?
i. - ✔✔1. Community health nursing
ii. 2. Pediatric nursing
•
Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit?
- ✔✔Dorothy Orem
•
Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing?
- ✔✔Florence Nightingale
•
What is stress theory?
- ✔✔Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they manage a crisis, including resources they
possess and those that are available to them, as well as their own perception of the
crisis/situation
•
What is the developmental approach?
- ✔✔The family's progression through different stages of tasks or issues through the
lifecycle
•
What is the structural-functional approach?
- ✔✔A holistic, comprehensive approach that incorporates not only the family, but their
inner and outer environments/universe
•
What is the family lifecycle career?
- ✔✔Successive areas of stages of experiences of a family as a unit
